Official: Aftershocks expected in Azerbaijan following 5.6 magnitude earthquake

Director General of the Azerbaijani Center for Seismological Service under Gurban Yetirmishli has said that aftershocks will be observed after an earthquake, but they may not be felt.

According to him, the origin of the December 7 earthquake coincided with the origin of the earthquake that occurred in July in the Caspian Sea, Report informs.

"The earthquake occurred in the same place, along the same fault. Then there were 6-7 aftershocks. None of them was felt," he underlined.

Meanwhile, an earthquake of magnitude 5.6 that occurred in the Azerbaijani waters of the Caspian Sea was felt in Aktau, Kazakhstan, the seismological experimental-methodological expedition of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kazakhstan reported, according to local media.

“On the territory of Kazakhstan, tremors with an intensity of 3 points on the 12-point MSK-64 scale were felt in Aktau (the administrative centre of the Caspian Mangistau region),” seismologists noted.

According to seismologists, the earthquake's epicentre with energy class 14.3 lay at a depth of 35 kilometres at a distance of 2,289 kilometres from the Kazakh metropolis of Almaty.